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Horseradish Deviled Eggs with Seared Steak and Blue Cheese Recipe

Mitch Prensky, chef-owner at Supper in Philadelphia, shared this recipe with us. Hard-boiled egg yolks are mashed with mayonnaise, horseradish cream, lemon juice...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and blue cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 118 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

8 to 10 servings as an appetizer
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Egg + blue cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Mustard + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,813 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, horseradish, cream, lemon, parsley, pepper, blue cheese):

  1. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Mustardthe original
  4. Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, horseradish, cream, lemon, parsley, pepper, blue cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).